Toshiba to drop Rambus DRAM sales for PCsNews & Analysis 12/18/2001 Post a commentToshiba Corp. today said it will cease selling Direct Rambus DRAMs in the PC market as part of its strategic shift in its memory chip strategy. The Japanese chip maker announced today it was exiting the commodity DRAM business and selling its Virginia wafer fab to Micron Technology Inc. as part of that change in strategy (see today's story).

Toshiba sells DRAM business to MicronNews & Analysis 12/18/2001 Post a commentToshiba has decided to sell its DRAM business, not to German chipmaker Infineon Technologies, with which the company had been negotiating for several months, but to US-based Micron Technology.

Conexant expects 10% sequential growth in quarter due to better wireless salesNews & Analysis 12/17/2001 Post a commentNEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-- Conexant Systems Inc. today said sales are showing further improvements in the last three months of 2001, with company revenues expected to grow 10% sequentially from $201 million in the prior fiscal quarter. Conexant had been forecasting a 5-to-7% sequential increase in sales in the fiscal first quarter, which ends Dec. 28.

Conexant, Alpha to create new wireless chip company in 2002News & Analysis 12/17/2001 Post a commentNEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-- In a move to create a third independently-traded chip company from its operations, Conexant Systems Inc. here today announced plans to spin off and merge its wireless IC business with Alpha Industries Inc. to form a new supplier of integrated radio-frequency solutions for all major standards in 2.5 and 3G cellular phones.

TI offers ROM-based Bluetooth processor for $5 solution in volume productsNews & Analysis 12/11/2001 Post a commentSAN FRANCISCO -- At the Bluetooth Developers Conference here, Texas Instruments Inc. today announced a new ROM-based baseband processor for the short-distance wireless connection format. TI said its BSN6050 baseband chip will provide full data rate Bluetooth links at a "solution" price as low as $5 for system quantities over 2 million units next year.

Cirrus expects explosive growth from latest acquisition--Stream MachineNews & Analysis 12/11/2001 Post a commentAUSTIN, Tex. -- Cirrus Logic Inc. here said it has completed its stock-for-stock purchase of Stream Machine Co., a multimedia chip supplier based in Milpitas, Calif., and the company estimates that it will take a one-time, non-cash charge of $14-to-$20 million in the current quarter for goodwill in the acquisition.

Stacked cells to boost density of write-once memoryNews & Analysis 12/11/2001 Post a commentTaiwanese foundry TSMC has started building chips for a US start-up that plans to use stacked cells as a way of boosting the density of its write-once memory. Matrix Semiconductor wants to take the memories to a point where they can be as disposable as camera film or audio tape.

Intel, Sun sketch multiprocessor chip plansNews & Analysis 12/10/2001 Post a commentIntel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each laying plans to deliver multiprocessing computers on a chip. Both plan to put two to more processors on a die with simultaneous multithreading (SMT), a design approach that lets a processor handle two or more threads of an application simultaneously.

Microtune offers RF chips to greatly cut cost of video-on-demand cable networksNews & Analysis 12/10/2001 Post a commentPLANO, Tex. -- Microtune Inc. here today announced it has developed the industry's first silicon-based upconverter chip set for video-on-demand (VOD) applications under a partnership with nCube Corp. The new VideoCaster product shrinks radio frequency electronics into three chips using proprietary circuit designs and silicon-germanium (SiGe) technology, according to Microtune.

Anadigics reports improvement in wireless products sales in Q4News & Analysis 12/10/2001 Post a commentWARREN, N.J.--Anadigics Inc. today said it now expects revenues in the fourth quarter to be on the high end of its previous estimate, or about $20.5 million, because of increased demand for CDMA and TDMA wireless products. Anadigics' new estimate places its Q4 sales 20.5% higher than $16.3 million in the third quarter.

AMD raises Q4 sales forecast to 10% sequential growthNews & Analysis 12/6/2001 Post a commentSUNNYVALE, Calif.--Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today raised its sales forecast for the fourth quarter partly because of strong for its new Athlon XP processor, which was introduced on Oct. 9. AMD said better-than-expected PC processor sales will drive up overall Q4 revenues by 10% compared to $765.9 million in the third quarter.

National revenues up 8% from prior quarter, trimming lossesNews & Analysis 12/6/2001 Post a commentSANTA CLARA, Calif. -- National Semiconductor Corp. today reported an 8% sequential increase in revenues to $366.5 million in the company's fiscal second quarter, ended Nov. 25, compared to $39.3 million in the prior quarter. National's net loss totaled $46.6 million in the just-ended quarter, compared to a loss of $54.6 million in the prior quarter.

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